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Fiction

This Week & Last week/Weeks on List

1 HOUSE RULES, by Jodi Picoult. (Atria, $28.) A teenage boy with Asperger’s syndrome is accused of murder.  1

2 THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95.) A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s ­Mississippi. 2 49

3 FANTASY IN DEATH, by J. D. Robb. (Putnam, $26.95.) Lt. Eve Dallas investigates the murder of a fantasy-game entrepreneur; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously. 1 2

4 ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER, by Seth Grahame-Smith. (Grand Central, $21.99.) Lincoln fights the undead; by the author of “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.  1

5 WORST CASE, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) A New York detective raising 10 children alone investigates a string of kidnappings and killings of teenagers by a villain with unusual motives. 6 5

6 BIG GIRL, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte, $28.) A woman with weight issues learns to accept herself. 5 2

7* BLACK MAGIC SANCTION, by Kim Harrison. (Eos/HarperCollins, $25.99.) A witch who is also a bounty hunter is shunned by her kind; the eighth Rachel Morgan book. 3 2

8 SPLIT IMAGE, by Robert B. Parker. (Putnam, $25.95.) Jesse Stone, the police chief of Paradise, Mass., copes with divorce, the bottle and the murder of a mob soldier. 4 2

9 THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown. (Doubleday, $29.95.) Robert Langdon among the Masons. 8 25

10 THE POSTMISTRESS, by Sarah Blake. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $25.95.) Ordinary life in a Massachusetts small town and an American radio reporter in England in the 1940s. 10 4

11* WINTER GARDEN, by Kristin Hannah. (St. Martin’s, $26.99.) After their father’s death, two sisters must cooperate to run his apple orchard and care for their difficult mother. 9 5

12 THE MAN FROM BEIJING, by Henning Mankell. (Knopf, $25.95.) A massacre in a tiny Swedish village has roots in the past and on other continents. Excerpt 7 3

13 THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf, $25.95.) A Swedish hacker becomes a murder suspect. Excerpt 13 21

14* THE THREE WEISSMANNS OF WESTPORT, by Cathleen Schine. (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.) Two sisters — one logical, one emotional — move in with their mother when her ex-husband kicks her out of the family apartment; a tribute to Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility.”  2

15 POOR LITTLE BITCH GIRL, by Jackie Collins. (St. Martin’s, $26.99.) Hollywood murder, three beautiful 20-something high school friends, a hot New York club owner. 12 4

Non-Fiction

1 NO APOLOGY, by Mitt Romney. (St. Martin’s, $25.99.) The former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential candidate calls for economic and civic­ ­revitalization. (†) (†)  1

2 LIFT, by Kelly Corrigan. (Voice/Hyperion, $16.99.) Stories about parenting, written as a letter to the author’s daughters.  1

3 GAME CHANGE, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. (Harper/HarperCollins, $27.99.) Behind the scenes at the 2008 election with Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, John and Elizabeth Edwards, John McCain and Sarah Palin. 1 8

4 NOT WITHOUT HOPE, by Nick Schuyler and Jeré Longman. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $25.99.) A man survives a deep-sea fishing trip gone terribly wrong.  1

5 THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, by Rebecca Skloot. (Crown, $26.) Race, poverty and science intertwine in the story of the woman whose cancer cells were cultured without her permission in 1951 and have supported a mountain of research undertaken since then. Excerpt 2 5

6 NO ONE WOULD LISTEN, by Harry Markopolos with others. (Wiley, $27.95.) The man who blew the whistle on Bernie Madoff and was ignored.  1

7 THE PACIFIC, by Hugh Ambrose. (NAL Caliber, $26.95.) Stories of Marines and a Navy pilot during World War II; companion volume for an HBO mini-series.  1

8 WILLIE MAYS, by James S. Hirsch. (Scribner, $30.) The life and career of a baseball legend. 8 4

9* THE POLITICIAN, by Andrew Young. (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s, $24.99.) A tell-all by John Edwards’s closest aide. Excerpt 4 6

10 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Why some people succeed, from the author of “Blink.” Excerpt 7 68

11 SON OF HAMAS, by Mosab Hassan Yousef with Ron Brackin. (SaltRiver/Tyndale House, $26.99.) The son of a Hamas founder converts to Christianity and emigrates to the United States.  1

12 I AM OZZY, by Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres. (Grand Central, $26.99.) Recollections of heavy metal’s “Prince of Darkness.” 3 6

13* THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO, by Atul Gawande. (Metropolitan/Holt, $24.50.) Following checklists makes surgery safer and other activities more efficient, a doctor argues. Excerpt 6 9

14 MAKING ROUNDS WITH OSCAR, by David Dosa. (Hyperion, $23.99.) A nursing-home cat who comforts patients when death is near. 11 5

15 STONES INTO SCHOOLS, by Greg Mortenson. (Viking, $26.95.) Building schools, many of them for girls, in northeast Afghanistan; takes up where “Three Cups of Tea” left off. Excerpt 10 14

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